| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 364.1 | SPACE CADETS ON SPACE PATROL IN SPACE! | EDEN::KLAES | It's only a model! | Wed Aug 06 1986 09:40 | 6 |
| Could it be a remake of the ABC-TV show SPACE PATROL made in
the early 1950's?
Or perhaps that very show itself dubbed in German?
Larry
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| 364.2 | No, I don't think so. | STKSWS::LITBY | Arthur, there isn't time! | Wed Aug 06 1986 09:58 | 10 |
| No, it could't have been the _same_ show - Swedish TV doesn't use
dubbing, and certainly not in German! We'd have had the English
sound with subtitles.
The remake theory, though, sounds plausible, but I have the distinct
impression that the series was a German original. It wasn't a space
opera, and I'm pretty sure it was brand new when it was shown here
(late 60's). What was the ABC 'Space Patrol' about?
<PO>
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| 364.3 | TOO MUCH SPACE - NOT ENOUGH CADETS! | EDEN::KLAES | It's only a model! | Wed Aug 06 1986 11:27 | 6 |
| I believe ABC-TV's SPACE PATROL was that network's competitor
to another early 1950's SF show, TOM CORBETT-SPACE CADET, which
was loosely based on Robert Heinlein's SF novel, SPACE CADETS.
Larry
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| 364.4 | | AKOV68::BOYAJIAN | Forever On Patrol | Thu Aug 07 1986 00:38 | 8 |
| I don't recall ever hearing about a German sf tv show, let
alone a possible remake of the old SPACE PATROL. I wonder if
it's possibly a tv version of the Perry Rhodan series, though
I haven't heard of one. Of the works I have on sf in media,
there aren't any that discuss "foreign" (ie. non-American or
non-British Commonwealth) tv shows.
--- jerry
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| 364.5 | Hmm... strange! | STK01::LITBY | Arthur, there isn't time! | Thu Aug 07 1986 04:56 | 4 |
| Odd. I'm _very_ sure it was German. I suppose we have to wait for
some German SF enthusiast to enter this conference...
<PO>
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| 364.6 | | AKOV68::BOYAJIAN | Forever On Patrol | Thu Aug 07 1986 08:13 | 5 |
| I didn't mean to imply that there *weren't* any German sf tv
shows, just that I hadn't heard of any, nor do any of my books
on the subject mention any.
--- jerry
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| 364.7 | Tom Corbett novels | TLE::DRAVES | | Thu Aug 07 1986 09:08 | 7 |
| Re: .3
I remember a juvenile SF series about the adventures of a Tom Corbett
and his buddies Roger and Astro. Does anyone know how these tie-in
with the television show?
Rich
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| 364.8 | | STK01::LITBY | Arthur, there isn't time! | Thu Aug 07 1986 13:53 | 12 |
| I think I may have answered my own question... Browsing through the
1978 International Science Fiction Yearbook, I actually found an
entry. Supposedly shown in Netherlands in 1977, a German series by
the name of 'Spaceship Orion' was mentioned. Since the name of the
spaceship in the series I remember was in fact 'Orion', it's got to
be the same one. It was probably called 'Raumschiff Orion' or
something like that in German.
I'd still appreciate more information about the series, if anyone
has seen or heard of it.
<PO>
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| 364.9 | I'll check | COMET2::TIMPSON | Input! Input! More input! | Thu Aug 07 1986 22:49 | 4 |
| My Exwife is German and she mentioned a SF she always use to watch.
I'll see her on Saturday and get the details.
Steve
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| 364.10 | | AKOV68::BOYAJIAN | Forever On Patrol | Fri Aug 08 1986 00:26 | 8 |
| re:.7
The Tom Corbett books were based on the tv show. The he show ran
from 1950-1955 (roughly) and the books from 1953-1956 (roughly).
There were eight of them altogether, written by "Carey Rockwell"
(no one that I know of has discovered the true authorship).
--- jerry
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| 364.11 | For what it's worth | COMET2::TIMPSON | Input! Input! More input! | Sun Aug 10 1986 17:52 | 5 |
| RE .9
I checked with my Ex and Se said it was called "The Adventures of
the Starsip Orion"
Steve
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| 364.12 | USA network cure for insomnia | CASV02::DLONG | | Thu Feb 05 1987 09:54 | 13 |
| I can't believe I stumbled [accidently] on a note about the old
Tom Corbett shows. I saw them on USA network a couple of years
back and they were the worst I've ever seen. [Maybe that makes
them 'classic']. I mean, honestly, being able to rescue someone
on the outside of a ship who had drifted off the hull during a
spacewalk, claiming his qualification for tossing the rope [ha!]
to the unfortunate as "I wasn't the skee-ball champ of the academy
for nothing"!
USA justifiably ran them as their version of the Boskone 2am turkey.
Heinlen? Sigh...
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| 364.13 | An eyewitness | ELIS::BUREMA | PRUNE JUICE: The warrior's drink | Thu Jul 23 1992 10:14 | 16 |
| This must be a blast from the past...
There was a German TV-series called "Raumschiff Orion". I remember
watching it in the Netherlands. This was in the time frame 1964-1969.
It was about a spaceship captain who was being disciplined and had to
command a partol ship. (He used to command an exploration type of
ship). Because of population pressure and/or other reasons most of the
Earth population lives on the ocean bottom. When our captain is
patrolling, some extra-terrestrial invasion tires to conquer Earth's
influence sphere, and of course our captain is in the thick of it.
If memory serves, the main character was Dietmar Schl�ndorf, but as
memory is the second thing to go...
FWIW, Wildrik
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